Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-17
Straps aud fafts.

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for nineteen days.
A man in tLuzerne county, Pa, has
been sentenced to thirty days in jail for at
tempted bribery in a county convention.
He was a member of a combine among
the delegates, those concerned in which
enterprise had agreed not to vote for any
candidate unless paid for it; and he was
punished for making negotiations for the
s.delivery' of these votes.
Senator Beck is not to have a walk
over to re-election as was anticipated when
his DR.. Standiford of Louisville, died
the other day. The Standiford forces are
uniting upon Judge Thomas F. Harris,
late Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court
of Appeals. Beck has created many heart
burnings in the State by his distribution
of Federal patronage.
willis McDearmon, a school teacher
near Babattia, Jackson county, Tennessee,
found his school house guarded by a mob
Wednesday morning, who refused him ad-
mission on the ground that he was prohi-
bit1onist. McDearmon opened another
school house. The anti-prohibitionists in
stalled a new teacher and the pupils divid-
ed according to the parents views OF the
question.
= During the recent convention of color
ed veterans in Boston it was stated in the
discussion that the first colored troops en-
listed ip the late war came from Massachu-
sets. Gen. B. F. Butler states that this is
mistake, and he asserts that in 1862 he
enlisted three regiments of colored troops
in New Orleans and had them in action a
long time before colored soldiers were
used elsewhere.
-One of the regrets of the Israelites,
-,L1- klo~s Ctr fhnir hoorfo oroip fnrnn6
back to Egypt" was for the onions which
they used to eat in their land of bondage.
It is to be noted that Egypt is again be-
coming q land of onion culture. Large
quantities are yearly shipped to Europe
from Alexandria and other ports. A few
years ago the trade hardly existed, while
In two months of last year alone IA 900 tons
were shipped to Liverpool.
LAT Rockaway Beach, neal New York,
on Tuesday afternoon of last week, in the
presence Of 20, 900 spectators, Thomas S.
Baldwin, the %seronaut, assembled in a bal
loon to the height of 5000 feet, and then,
with a parachute of his own invention,
leaped from the balloon and came down
safely, falling at the rate of ~ feet a sec
ond and landing in water about two feet
deep. He was none the worse for the ad-
venture. The balloon was recovered about
eight miles out to sea.
- MILFORD Woodruff, who as president of
the Twelve Apostles has become head OF
the Mormon Church, is a ~polygamist who
for two years has been a fugitive from JUS
tice. If the church were really in sympa-
thy with the anti-polygamy articles OF the
constitution which its members have
framed, and which they promise to sup
port, it would not have put Woodruff as
Successor of Taylor. Phe selection of this
man is additional proof that the new con-
~stitution does not represent the real atti-
tude of the church-whose members con-
stitute four-ifths of the population OF
Utah-toward the abolition of polygamy.
"A, Denver, Colorado, dispatch of Satur-
day says: Adjt. Gen. West has issued or
ders for all the State militia-infantry,
cavalry and artillery companies-W get
ready to move at a moments notice. He
will, in case of a serious outbreak of the
Colerow renegades, order the companies
to Montrose and Ouray to head off the Utes
at Grand Junction. Gen. West left for
Glenwood Springs Immediately after issu-
ing the order, and it is now reported that
United States Marshal Hall, now at Lead
vile, will join him at Salida, and if neces-
sary ask for United States troops to assist
the State militia.
john Clay, the only remaining son Of
Henry Clay, died at his farm near Licking
ton, KY, last Wednesday. He left the
city at 1 O'Clock in his usual health, going
home, and after dining went out to sup
erintend repairs on his pump. While CIV
ing instructions to the workmen he fell
dead, without any p~remonitions, of heart
disease. Clay was 81 years old. He had
no children. He was married about TWEEN
ty years ago to his nephew's widow, Mrs.
Col. Irwin. Irwin was killed at the battle
of: Perryville, while in command of a Con-
federate regiment. John Clay possessed
trious father, being a plain farmer, devot-
ing much of his time to raising thorough
bred horses. He became a Catholic tWen-
tyyears ago. a.
ia-The Democrats in Kentucky did not
lose 80 much in the Legislature as the fall
ing off of their majority on the State tick
ct would indicate. In the last Legislature
the Democrats had 35 members in the
Senate and 70 members of the House. In
the Legislature of 1887 they will have, &C.
oordingi to the Louisville Courier Journal
reports, 81 members in the Senate and 70
in the House, a loss of 10 ON joint ballot.
The Republicans had in the last Legisla-
ture 3 members in the Senate and 90 in
the House. In the next Legislature the
Democratic figures give the Republicans
members of the Senate and 26 members
ofthe House, a gain of ten on joint ballot.
The returns on the State ticket have not
yet been made public. The Democrats are
In no hurry.
The greatest length of line of any rail
road company in the world is owned by the
Union Pacific railroad company. 1t is
5,627 miles long. The main line from
Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Ogden, Utah, with
longest main line in the world is the Cana
dian Pacific, from Quebec to Fort Moody, a
distance of 1925 miles. Its branches give
it q total length of 1894 miles. The Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad has
q line owned and leased, of 1904 miles;
the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific, $3.50
miles; the Chicago and Northwestern,
3,763 miles; the Northern Pacific has a
main line Of 1,674 miles from Superior,
Wisconsin, to Wallula Junction, w. T.
Ex-Governor Franklin James Moses,
of South Carolina, who was pardoned out
of State prison two months ago, has since
been living at the Howard House as the
guest of Proprietor Ames, a distant rela-
tive of Governor Ames, Of MASSACHUSETTS.
The hotel keeper was largely instrumental
in securing the pardon. Moses has written
a book of 1,400 pages on reconstruction and
prison reform. In it he alludes to the OPT
um habit, to which in former years he wasa
slave, but which he is now free from. He
relates his own prison experiences at some
length, in order, as he says, that l might
add my Individual efforts to those which
others are making toward explaining the
subject of prison REFORM" The ex-Govor-
nor is of slender physique, about 5 feet 6
inches in height. He wears a black Prince